STAMP STORY
[Specially written Jor ‘’The Press” by KENNETH ANTHONY] Just a humdrum little stamp from some oriental country —that is all it appears to be. But the man depicted on it must surely have had the most astonishing career of anyone portrayed in the stamp album.
For here you are looking at the last Emperor of Imperial China. His original name was Pu Yi, and when he was enthroned at the tender age of two years in 1909, China marked the occasion with three handsome stamps showing the Temple of Heaven at Peking. He was to be the last of the line, for in 1911 tlie age-old monarchy was overthrown by revolution.
Strangely enough, the new republican regime for some years allowed him to keep his palace, and a large retinue. Then came an unsuccessful attempt to restore the monarchy, and the young man fled to the European zone at Tientsin.
The next development was the Japanese invasion of the north-eastern province, previ-
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31754, 10 August 1968, Page 5
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